Out of control: global turmoil on the eve of the twenty-first century

As we rush toward the 21st century, former Director of the National Security Council Brzezinski takes time out to issue an "urgent warning" about the current state of global politics. He believes we are in peril of repeating the "megadeath" of this century--a century that has witnessed the slaughter of 187 million people in the name of politics.

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Pagina 103foregoing — to the concrete dilemmas of the politically awakened, postutopian
world. The American response can either serve to deepen or to bridge the
conceptual dichotomy between the cravings of the newly activated masses in
what used ...

Pagina 187In time, among the richer portions of mankind, the concern for ecology may thus
prove to be a catalyst for greater recognition of the need both for a philosophical
reassessment of its way of life and for enhanced attention to the dilemmas of ...

Pagina 220However, global political dilemmas which are heavily influenced by cultural and
philosophical factors cannot be quickly remedied by a few specific prescriptions.
Indeed, it must be recognized that the expectation of instant solutions to complex
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OUT OF CONTROL: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century

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A brilliant and principled analysis of the perilous state of a fractious world as it approaches another millennium. Brzezinski (The Grand Failure, 1989, etc.), director of the National Security ...Citiți recenzia completă

Out of control: global turmoil on the eve of the twenty-first century

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President Carter's former national security adviser has produced his fourth book in ten years. The last one, The Grand Failure ( LJ 4/15/89), chronicled the decline of communism. This time, Brzezinski ...Citiți recenzia completă

Despre autor (1994)

Brzezinski served as National Security Advisor to the President of the United States from 1977-81. He is a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a professor of American foreign policy at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced